Data Test Analyst (1185)

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Data Test Analyst.  The role is technical in nature and will involve reconciling data between source and target, testing API's, system integrations and data mappings with transformations.

You will work to and promote testing best practice throughout the Society, adhering to an established test strategy. Working collaboratively in BAU and project environments as required, you will ensure formal testing of systems, applications and data is undertaken and consistently delivered to a high standard.

With a keen eye for detail and knowledge of structured testing techniques, you will accurately capture the results of testing and raise detailed defect reports as appropriate, providing summary results to project managers and workstream leads.

In addition to System testing, you will also facilitate and coordinate UAT.  Including running workshops with users, mentoring them in the UAT lifecycle and capturing and processing any feedback that may need to be passed back to the project team. The role will be hybrid working from our South East Regional Hub in Horsham, West Sussex or our London Hub in Blackfriars with a high focus on remote working. Trips to our hub will be for core collaboration. Applicants must have knowledge using SOQL and/or SQL & Salesforce.

We role model our values through our people culture and keep connected through regular/daily check-in's and team meetings, your colleagues are always on hand to support or chat. It's important to us that you feel part of our team from the get go! 

Are you ready to be part of our journey and make a difference? 

We offer a wide range of benefits to recognise your contributions at RSPCA.

• 35 hour week 
• Great Annual Leave benefits - 25 days annual leave on joining increasing each year to a maximum of 31 days (pro rata for part-time)
• Additional Society day around Christmas.
• Flexibility in hours - with the introduction of Core Hours staff can work their 35 hours flexibly across Monday to Friday. Core hours are 10.00am - 15.00 (please note this isn't available for our frontline animal care roles) 
• Generous pension scheme 
• Career development through our in-house Learning & Development training 
• Charity worker discounts: Access to hundreds of discounts across many retailers, travel, insurance & cinema tickets.
• Dog friendly offices at our London & South East Hub!

Here at RSPCA we know it's a cliche but no two days are the same, as a Data Test Analyst we've added a short list of what a typical day might look like in terms of what you would be doing. For a full insight please refer to the attached job description.

• Assist project managers or workstream leads with the estimation of testing effort and the planning of testing tasks as required.
• Participate in meetings and workshops to gain a full understanding of test requirements.
• Promote a preventative approach to testing by identifying issues in the test basis.
• Create or update detailed test cases and scenarios in advance of test execution activities. 
• Execution of manual and/or automated testing using the prepared test cases. 
• Approve the final decision relating to the overall quality of the software being tested before this is handed over to business testers.
• Support and facilitate Business User Acceptance Testing.
• Report on progress, including escalating any testing related risks and issues.
• Manage defect triages.
• Summarising all test levels in Test outcome reports for formal sign off ahead of go live.
• Regression test following 3rd party and internal software updates.
• Participate in post testing/release activities, e.g. post implementation reviews, contributing to lessons learned and future strategy as appropriate.

• Experience of API Testing and tools (Postman, SoapUI, etc)
• Experience in manually executing integration testing from 1 system to another, ensuring data flows as expected and can be reconciled
• Experience of working Data Mapping sheets and understanding the tests required for transformations. 
• Experience of using SOQL and/or SQL
• Mulesoft connecting to other systems (Salesforce, Postgres, BigQuery, etc)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working with internal, external, technical and nontechnical resources.
• Knowledge of structured test approaches (e.g. V-Model, Waterfall). 
• Software testing experience including test analysis, specification and execution of complex test cases. 
• Experience of working with web technologies.
• Competent in the production of project reports to demonstrate progress or issues. 
• Demonstrable functional testing experience and exposure to non-functional testing. 
• Commercial experience of working with industry standard test management and defect tracking tools.
• Broad knowledge of IS/IT architecture.

We are really lucky that some of our roles attract a high level of interest and for this reason we review applications as they are received, unfortunately on some occasions this means roles may close earlier than advertised; so early submissions are highly recommended. 

We want to ensure we do all we can to give you a positive candidate experience through our recruitment. Whilst we do try to give feedback where we can, sometimes due to receiving high levels of applications, this may not always be possible

We recognise that a diverse and inclusive workforce is essential to achieving our core mission. For this reason we actively encourage a wide diversity of applications - in particular from members of minority ethnic groups, and people with disabilities - as these candidates are currently under-represented at the RSPCA.

Should you need any support with your application or interview process please contact resourcingteam@rspca.org.uk

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